Jacob Lawrence Quotes

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life – if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don’t always know what.

This is my genre…the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

You bring to a painting your own experience.